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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] avoid infinite loop with bad debuginfo
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2lxpo1l.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52850730.1060109@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 14	Nov 2013 17:24:00 +0000")

>> +	  if (VALUE_LVAL (new_val) == lval_register
>> +	      && value_lazy (new_val)
>> +	      && frame_id_eq (VALUE_FRAME_ID (new_val), last_frame_id))

Pedro> I think this should also check the regnum:

Barf.  I have a memory of actually writing that.  False memory I guess.
Sigh.

>> #4  0x0000007fb7f0956c in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #5  0x0000007fb7f0956c in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

Pedro> Doesn't this all then mean that we somehow ended up with two identical
Pedro> frames with the same id on the frame chain (#4 and #5) ?
Pedro> That seems very wrong to me.

Pedro> It seems to be a better fix would be to make
Pedro> get_prev_frame_1/get_prev_frame_raw discard frame #5 before it
Pedro> was ever linked in.  Either that, or, if we really need to keep
Pedro> #5 linked in, we should find a way for frame_id_eq (#4, #5) to
Pedro> return false.

I will look into it, but my recollection is that last time we got into
this area, it was somehow undesirable to undo whatever changes were done
by existing frame sniffers.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-18 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-13 20:51 [PATCH 0/2] fix multi-threaded unwinding on AArch64 Tom Tromey
2013-11-13 20:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] handle an unspecified return address column Tom Tromey
2013-11-22 18:22   ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-26 13:55   ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-26 14:30     ` Mark Kettenis
2013-11-26 14:37       ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-26 14:41         ` Mark Kettenis
2013-11-26 14:42           ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-26 14:50           ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-26 15:05           ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-26 15:16       ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-26 16:11         ` Joel Brobecker
2013-11-13 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] avoid infinite loop with bad debuginfo Tom Tromey
2013-11-14 17:34   ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-18 18:25     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-11-19 15:10       ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-19 15:47         ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-19 16:33           ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-19 19:07             ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-19 20:24               ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-19 20:56                 ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-20 18:27                   ` [PATCH] Don't let two frames with the same id end up in the frame chain. (Re: [PATCH 1/2] avoid infinite loop with bad debuginfo) Pedro Alves
2013-11-21  0:33                     ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-21 16:40                       ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-21 19:25                         ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-22 14:13                           ` [COMMITTED] Make use of the frame stash to detect wider stack cycles. (was: Re: [PATCH] Don't let two frames with the same id end up in the frame chain. (Re: [PATCH 1/2] avoid infinite loop with bad debuginfo)) Pedro Alves
2013-11-22 14:29                         ` [PATCH] Don't let two frames with the same id end up in the frame chain. (Re: [PATCH 1/2] avoid infinite loop with bad debuginfo) Pedro Alves
2013-11-22 14:52       ` [PATCH 1/2] avoid infinite loop with bad debuginfo Pedro Alves
2013-11-22 17:16         ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-22 17:56           ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-19 15:52     ` Tom Tromey

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